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Birth of Venus
1732
Oil on canvas
This painting portrays Venus on a cockleshell below many hovering cherubs, one in particular releasing doves into the sky above. As the cockleshell is carried along the sea, Neptune the Sea God is also painted offering pearls and jewels of the sea to her.
This painting portrays Venus on a cockleshell below many hovering cherubs, one in particular releasing doves into the sky above. As the cockleshell is carried along the sea, Neptune the Sea God is also painted offering pearls and jewels of the sea to her.
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- http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=137821
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